Industry News: ESG5

The target: Sonic Restaurants, an American fast-food chain.

The take: An estimated five million credit and debit payment card accounts were compromised as a result of the attack.

The attack vector: The success of the attack was attributed to the age of Sonic’s Point-of-Sale systems, which were no longer receiving security updates and which were inherently vulnerable to manipulation and data exfiltration.

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